Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. Not everybody wakes up right after.
Did you know that bone china had real bones in it? Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl...
Death’s favorites don’t die.
Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is . And in the real world, Santa’s not fair. Rich k...
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.
Call and Tamara screamed. The car swerved, Call's hands heedless on the wheel. That made Tamara scream even harder. All the screams woke Jasper and Aaron, who added their voices to the screaming. Havo...
But what if I actually becoming besotted with him?Cardan is more knowledgeable than I am at love. He could use that against me, just as I asked him to use it against Nicasia. Perhaps he found a way t...
But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there.We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't.What...
But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it’s gone. The door isn’t there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.
Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across th...
As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt g...
As I make my way back to the tournament and my sisters, I can’t stop thinking of Cardan’s shocked face, nor can I stop considering Locke’s smile. I am not altogether sure which is more thrilling and w...
And you want more holes because you think pain will distract you from all the annoying celebrating? Or because stabbing me will make you feel better?Something like that. She smiled enigmatically, went...
After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.